Italian Divisionism: Gazes and Perspectives. A presentation and book signing with author Annie-Paule Quinsac

November 22, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Standard Admission: $10 Users and Students: Cost-free

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In this in particular person occasion, professor Annie-Paule Quinsac will present her recently-released e book, Divisionismo Italiano. Sguardi e prospettive 1880-1920 (Massetti Rodella Editori, 2022). The get the job done is a revisitation of her seminal thesis “La peinture divisionniste italienne. Origines et premiers développements 1880-1895“, reviewed at the Sorbonne in 1968 and posted in 1972.

Employing a transversal strategy, Quinsac analyses the sociopolitical, historic, and ideological context that characterized Italian divisionism, from Segantini’s Avemaria a trasbordo (1886, the initial Divisionist get the job done), by means of the Symbolism of the 1890s, and up to the Futurist revolution, underscoring the at any time-altering interpretations of critics by the existing.

Artists regarded: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, Giovanni Segantini, Jean François Millet, Gaetano Previati, Angelo Morbelli, Plinio Nomellini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Emilio Longoni, Attilio Pusterla, Carlo Fornara Ernest Meissonier, Jules Breton, Alfred Roll, Jules Adler Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini (and other people simply utilized for the sake of comparison).

Copies of the book will be accessible for purchase.

Gentle refreshments will be served.

Annie-Paule Quinsac is Professor Emerita at College of South Carolina and an artwork critic. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, and taught the heritage of 19th-century art for 25 yrs. She is a foremost scholar on the oeuvre of Giovanni Segantini, acquiring posted a catalogue raisonné of the artist (Electa, 1982, 2014-15) and a important edition of his correspondence (Cattaneo Editore, 1985). She has curated numerous exhibitions, equally in Italy and overseas, together with Segantini. Il ritorno a Milano  (Palazzo Reale, Milan 2014-15)

Public Programming at CIMA is produced possible with the generous support of Tiro a Segno Foundation.